A Crisis on Infinite Earths story with George Perez art? What’s not to like? Actually, this is a story I’ve long since thought needed to be revisited. In the post-CoIE DCU there had been a “Crisis,” but there no longer were “Infinite Earths.” This issue tells the story of the post-Crisis “Crisis” and actually works better as a supplement to the two-issue CoIE follow-up series The History of the DC Universe than it does to CoIE itself. IMHO. YMMV.
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Pariah and Harbinger were both shown, but not Lady Quark or Supergirl. All of the characters depicted are those whose existences were not wiped out by Crisis. For example, the Charlton heroes were shown but they were said to have come from Chicago and Hub city, not Earth-5. This wasn't a strict retelling of the events, but more of a "revisit," in which the main events of Crisis were summarized. I'm surprised you didn't buy this one yourself, Phillip. You've been buying this series up until now, haven't you?
I had a little internal groan when I saw that Perez drew the cover of the Legacies Crisis issue. I'm a huge fan of Perez, but Enough already! And now you say that he drew the interiors as well? Can't anyone else have a go?
And not Phil Jimenez either...
How inward- and backward-looking our hobby has become!
I don't think those DC Legends Crisis issues from the mid-nineties were drawn by Perez though? Can anyone remember?
Harbinger's been living on Paradise Island, and bought the farm in the origin of the current Supergirl in Superman/Batman #8-13. This story was adapted as DC Animated Movie Superman/Batman: Apokolips, which shipped Sept. 28, and sure enough, Harbinger dies in the movie as well.
In this case, Figs, I think the Perez art for Crisis is exactly what was called for. It gives this continuity tweak an air of legitimacy that others have lacked.
But, as the above comic shows, other artists have handled the Crisis. Paul Ryan did, and I'm pretty sure there's an issue of JLA: Incarnations devoted to it. (Val Semekis drew that, I think?) But for this -- and the "event" nature of the book -- I think Perez gives it the oomph it really needs, the same way that Garcia-Lopez was the perfect artist for the previous stories, and Dan Jurgens will be for the upcoming Doomsday issue.
Yes, I see that Perez is the best way to go to give this little adventure its legitimacy.
It's just that I can't believe the lengths they are going to let the fanmen know that everything is now all tied up for them and all the changes they've been making since Infinite Crisis are now somehow 'canon'.
It's a fun diversion, and I'm half-tempted to own this myself as a little addendum to Crisis on Infinite Earths and I know I'm sounding grouchy, but still, I'm a little dismayed that so much creative energy and fan enthusiasm (and Perez's prodigious talents) are being spent on this strange little backwards-looking continuity patch.
Let's move forward!
Crisis itself was an editorial continuity patch more than a story, and this reworking of it seems like a continuity patch on a continuity patch. Infinite regression! It's like watching a navel staring at its own navel!
Actually, for the most part I'm considering this less of a continuity patch and more a project akin to Marvels -- though not as affecting as Marvels, nor told with the same focus. But despite the continuity-patch aspects of this, I'm viewing it as one person's recollection of what happened, not necessarily the gospel truth.
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Hopefully they'll say where Pariah and Lady Quark came from. Are they and Harbinger even still around?
And not Phil Jimenez either...
How inward- and backward-looking our hobby has become!
I don't think those DC Legends Crisis issues from the mid-nineties were drawn by Perez though? Can anyone remember?
That was supposed to have been instended as a middle chapter of the original 12-issue series but was cut for length.
But, as the above comic shows, other artists have handled the Crisis. Paul Ryan did, and I'm pretty sure there's an issue of JLA: Incarnations devoted to it. (Val Semekis drew that, I think?) But for this -- and the "event" nature of the book -- I think Perez gives it the oomph it really needs, the same way that Garcia-Lopez was the perfect artist for the previous stories, and Dan Jurgens will be for the upcoming Doomsday issue.
It's just that I can't believe the lengths they are going to let the fanmen know that everything is now all tied up for them and all the changes they've been making since Infinite Crisis are now somehow 'canon'.
It's a fun diversion, and I'm half-tempted to own this myself as a little addendum to Crisis on Infinite Earths and I know I'm sounding grouchy, but still, I'm a little dismayed that so much creative energy and fan enthusiasm (and Perez's prodigious talents) are being spent on this strange little backwards-looking continuity patch.
Let's move forward!
Crisis itself was an editorial continuity patch more than a story, and this reworking of it seems like a continuity patch on a continuity patch. Infinite regression! It's like watching a navel staring at its own navel!
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